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President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has called for more resources for the country’s Armed forces in a call bolstered by Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s call for budget balance. De Sousa, who, a year ago focused his speech on the memory...

A new package for farmers worth over SEK 2 billion (€192 million) was presented by Finance Minister Mikael Damberg and the Centre Party’s economic policy spokesperson Martin Ådahl at a press conference on Monday. “It is both appropriate and possible...

Finland’s possible NATO membership has raised questions around the current demilitarised status of the Åland Islands. Finland owns the Åland Islands, an autonomous region that lies at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea between Finland...

Authorities said they would launch a full investigation into allegations that the phones of dozens of Catalan activists and politicians were hacked by controversial spyware for several years. The Spanish ombudsman announced a probe into the accusations, which have further...

Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra will be the first Dutch minister to join the annual Raisina Dialogue in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss cooperation on tackling current global challenges, the government stated. Every year, foreign ministers, politicians, business, and civil society...

The COVID-19 vaccine will never be made mandatory in Austria, according to Social Democratic Party leaderPamela Rendi-Wagner who previously was in favour of making the vaccine mandatory. The government has “completely failed” on this long-discussed issue, Rendi-Wagner told  Austrian TV...

The Czech Republic wants to take Russia’s place in the UN Human Rights Council, the foreign ministry confirmed on Twitter. At the start of April, Russia was suspended from the Human Rights Council in the wake of its invasion of...

Russia told the world not to underestimate the considerable risks of nuclear war that it said it wanted to reduce and warned that conventional Western weapons were legitimate targets in Ukraine, where battles raged in the east.

The US and UK could promise protection for Sweden with “increased military presence” during a potential Swedish application process to NATO, according to Aftonbladet sources. After internal domestic debates, Finland and Sweden’s governments are preparing possible applications for NATO membership in the next...

Russia and China’s unrestrained partnership is increasingly becoming a threat to the Indo-Pacific region, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday (25 April), in reference to the geopolitical fallout of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. “Countries battered by...

The impasse over the status of the Northern Ireland protocol is one of the main obstacles to a US-UK trade deal, Washington’s trade representative Katherine Tai said on Monday 26 April.

Strengthening the cultural elements and a focus on innovation-driven projects are the driving forces for Malaga’s future after the pandemic, Mayor Francisco de la Torre told EFE in an interview.

A series of explosions struck the building housing the ministry of state security in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria on Monday (25 April), days after Moscow said the Russian-backed region could be drawn into the war in Ukraine. Officials from...

Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed for life without parole on Monday after he was convicted of trying to overthrow the government by financing protests, in a case that Europe's top court and Western powers say is politically motivated.

Three-quarters of Beijing's 22 million people began lining up for COVID-19 tests on Tuesday as authorities in the Chinese capital raced to stamp out an outbreak and avert the kind of city-wide lockdown that has shrouded Shanghai for a month.

Following Russia's invasion, the widespread internal displacement of families in Ukraine has led to a precarious situation for vulnerable children, with reports of forced deportations and illegal adoptions to Russia raising particular concerns.

On 24 February, Russia invaded Ukraine. The next day, EU leaders gathered for an extraordinary summit. At that time, they thought the war would only last a few days... This seems like ancient history now.

It is only by deepening political integration, presenting genuinely progressive and realistic solutions and gaining more influence in the European political space that we can deploy our ambitious social and economic agenda, write MEPs from three different groups of the European Parliament and members of the Progressive Caucus.

Europe's market for hydrogen-powered taxis is becoming increasingly competitive, with French company Hype, which has developed them in Paris since 2015, being among the frontrunners. EURACTIV France reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (25 April) said his main spy agency had foiled what he cast as a Western plot to kill a prominent Russian journalist.